REVISED UPDATE: After the January 6 Committee hearings, where can Trump go to escape the law? China?
SATIRE -- and Weekly Insights and Analysis
Preview of Part Two—Insights and Analysis (Below)
In Part Two, below, we discuss how appeasers within the European Commission are surreptitiously easing sanctions on Russia under a cloud of deceit, in the form of a seventh package of sanctions they are holding out as punishing Russia further. We raise the possibility this easing of sanctions may have been Putin’s price for the grain export deal brokered by Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and U.N. officials.
We also talk about how Vladimir Putin is toying with Germany, resuming gas deliveries through the Nordstream I pipeline after a 10-day maintenance break, but only at 40% of previous years’ levels. Finally, we address the fall of the coalition government of Mario Drahi in Italy, the upcoming elections on September 25, and the great threat a possible victory by pro-Russian parties would represent for continued opposition to Russia’s aggression in Ukraine.
Part One—Main Article
SATIRE: Where can Trump go to escape the law? China?
Following the January 6 Committee hearings on Thursday July 21, 2022 which detailed the actions of the former president on January 6, 2021, Donald Trump may be again reviewing advice we gave him in the fall of 2020, both before and after the election1. Two of our articles have been reproduced here.2
The revelations on July 21 were deeply incriminating. They may accelerate Justice Department investigations leading to indictments of Trump.
Here, we reproduce our advice offered in October 2020.
From The Trenchant Observer, October 20, 2020
Donald Trump has been musing about where he might go if he loses the election and has to leave the country,
He is smart to be thinking about where he might fly to in order to escape American law and justice.
In our first analysis we pointed out certain factors he ought to consider in reaching a decision.
At first glace, he would seem to be well-advised to avoid countries that have an extradition treaty with the United States. That would rule out:
Canada
United Kingdom
the 27 members of the European Union
Brazil
Bolivia
Panama
In our first article, we considered the advantages of Trump and his entourage moving to Russia, which does not have an extradition treaty with the U.S., and which should definitely rank high on the list of possible relocation countries.
In a second look, we examined the question of whether the existence of an extradition treaty with the United States should automatically rule out a country.
Taking a close look at the advantages for Trump and his collaborators of a move to the Bahamas, and after a detailed analysis of the U.S.-Bahamas extradition treaty, we concluded that Trump and his collaborators should place the Bahamas at or near the top of their list of countries they might want to relocate to.
But there are also other countries that have their advantages, and which Trump and his collaborators might wish to consider.
China
Foremost among other countries to consider is China. Donald Trump obviously has been fascinated with China and its potential for his businesses for a long time.